Setting up a Local Community (LoCo) Team

This page serves to help people who want to set up a LoCo Team in their
area and the steps they need to follow. We hope this simple step by step
guide will make things easy for people to get involved and set up a team.

A LoCo Team is a Local Community of Ubuntu users. A LoCo Team can involve
things such as local promotion, support in the local language, general
encouragement to local users, mentoring, social events and much more. Most
importantly however, it lets people find other Ubuntu users near them and
experience the Ubuntu Community first hand.

LoCos are around to help promote or support Ubuntu and build communities in
specific areas. Most LoCos have projects such as translating or customising
Ubuntu for their specific area, or getting involved in the wider Ubuntu
Community which is one of the things that makes Ubuntu great. The LoCos are
a very important part of the Ubuntu Community.

Team naming standards and Setting up your team resources

Team Naming Standard

For Almost Everyone
Ubuntu-Country ISO Code
For the United States - (e.g. ubuntu-us-ut for Utah, ubuntu-us-ny for New
York)

The following are a list of resources you should also set up, again, USA
differs so please look at the naming examples for USA.

USA Teams

IRC: ubuntu-us-SS (e.g. ubuntu-us-ut for Utah, ubuntu-us-ny for New York)

Launchpad: ubuntu-us-statename, or state short code (e.g ubuntu-us-ohio, ubuntu-us-ma)

Setting up your team resources

One of the most critical tasks in running a successful team is to ensure it
is easy for people to (a) get involved and (b) communicate with each other.
This may require setting up some team resources.
Every team should have the following resources set up:

Mailing List

Mailing lists are hosted by Canonical at
http://lists.ubuntu.com/ and each LoCo team should have a mailing list.
An ubuntu-CC (CC is the ISO country code) mailing list for general
discussion about Ubuntu in your language should be created. Email
rt at ubuntu.com to request the creation of a mailing list. The list should
be created within 2 weeks. If it is not, please contact the LoCo Council to
find out whether there is a problem with the request. United States teams
should append the two-letter US state name abbreviation for
the relevant state (e.g. ubuntu-us-ca).

IRC Channel

IRC is a great way for the team to have real-time
discussions about the group. You should register a channel on the freenode
IRC network. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines has details of the
expectations of IRC channels in the #ubuntu-* namespace.